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Because you're breaking the narrative. They don't like that round here. Using statistics to support the opposite argument challenges beliefs too. And we can't h

Because you're breaking the narrative. They don't like that round here. Using statistics to support the opposite argument challenges beliefs too. And we can't have that. See how the SF community has turned on Theil > The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. By Kara Swisher @karaswisher > ... And many of those who like him personally and call him a "dear friend" are even perplexed, going as far as not talking to him of late because of his Trump support. "I’ve tried," sighed one such friend, who described a number of colleagues trying to pull him off the Trump train, including PayPal Mafia family member Reid Hoffman. http://www.recode.net/2016/7/21/12241648/peter-thiel-trump-speech-preview http://www.recode.net/2016/7/21/12241648/peter-thiel-trump-s...

splawn 10y ago
What exactly is the opposite argument to BLM? That the statistical racial disparity in police shootings is justified and is as it should be?
- SixSigma 10y ago
  That cops are racist and killing blacks because they are black.
  - splawn 10y ago
    That doesn't sound the like opposite position of BLM to me. That sounds more like a simplistic caricature of BLM's central premise. Did you misunderstand my question? (or I might be simply confused on some other level... wouldn't be the first time, lol)
    - SixSigma 10y ago
      Yeah, I forgot the other part of the platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQXmnMr_w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQXmnMr_w8
- sfrailsdev 10y ago
  I think (and I'm not an expert on conservative thoughts on BLM, and to be clear, I don't believe this at all myself) it's that there is no racial disparity in police shootings, whites get killed just as often as blacks, Blacks are just more criminal (not of course, because they are black or systemic racism leading to less legitimate opportunities, but because of internal issues within black culture and community like unwed mothers), and that white liberals and outside agitators stoke the fires of racial hatred against whites rather then addressing the issues with black people in order to advance their own political agenda.

splawn 10y ago

What exactly is the opposite argument to BLM? That the statistical racial disparity in police shootings is justified and is as it should be?

SixSigma 10y ago
That cops are racist and killing blacks because they are black.
- splawn 10y ago
  That doesn't sound the like opposite position of BLM to me. That sounds more like a simplistic caricature of BLM's central premise. Did you misunderstand my question? (or I might be simply confused on some other level... wouldn't be the first time, lol)
  - SixSigma 10y ago
    Yeah, I forgot the other part of the platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQXmnMr_w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQXmnMr_w8
sfrailsdev 10y ago
I think (and I'm not an expert on conservative thoughts on BLM, and to be clear, I don't believe this at all myself) it's that there is no racial disparity in police shootings, whites get killed just as often as blacks, Blacks are just more criminal (not of course, because they are black or systemic racism leading to less legitimate opportunities, but because of internal issues within black culture and community like unwed mothers), and that white liberals and outside agitators stoke the fires of racial hatred against whites rather then addressing the issues with black people in order to advance their own political agenda.